The 2,000-Year History of AI - Could It Now REALLY Kill Us All? | With George Zarkadakis

Artificial intelligence could change humanity forever. But the history of AI began thousands of years before computers, machine learning and ChatGPT existed.

In just a few decades, humans have gone from mechanical computers and early ideas about machine intelligence to powerful AI systems capable of generating text and images, writing code, solving complex problems and performing tasks once thought to require human intelligence.

But how did we get here?

Bianca Nobilo explores the fascinating 2,000 year history of artificial intelligence, alongside AI engineer George Zarkadakis. 

(00:00:05) AI - millennia in the making

(00:00:29) From Talos to Turing... to total extinction?

(00:04:23) Theory of Mind - with George Zarkadakis

(00:05:55) Gods and demons - When does fear creep in?

(00:08:14) Scientific foundations

(00:11:51) Sex, war and robots

(00:15:12) Is AI conscious?

(00:16:56) Consciousness v intelligence